State-ownership policy: Sweet talking the IMF into privatization mirage
Urban & Economy_
Four years after promising a $40 billion privatization drive, Egypt’s government doused the IMF’s ambition in bureaucratic quicksand while shielding military assets.
The show must go on: Unpublished documents confirm ‘violations’ don’t block EU financing
Politics_
To keep migrants away from European shores, the EU is loosening its own human rights benchmarks and quietly rubber-stamping billions in concessional loans to Cairo.
